Shipping device for barbed wire.



'PATENTED MAR. 14, 1905.

7 G. B. KIMBALL. SHIPPING DEVICE FOR BARBED WIRE.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 7, 1904.

Hill! I III III 1N VENTOR. 6244a, 61m 5 A TTORNE).

Patented March 14, 1905.

CHARLES B. KIMBALL, OF ROCKY RIVER, OHIO.

SHIPPING DEVICE FOR BARBED WIRE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 784,794, dated March 14, 1905.

Application filed March 7,1904. Serial No. 196,845.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, OnARLus B. KIMBALL, a citizen 9f the United States, residing at Rocky River, in the county of Ouyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shipping Devices for Barbed ire; and I do declarethat thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilledin the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to shipping devices for barbed wire and other wires and things of a like character which may be wound upon a spool or are so wound as to become part of a spool and have suitable inclosing side or end portions, all substantially as shown and described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of one form of my new and improved shipping device for bundles of wire and the like and showing a bundle or roll of wire contained therein, and Fig. 2 is an axial sectional elevation thereof.

As thus shown the invention is more especially intended for domestic shipping. i

The invention comprises two substantially saucer-shaped shells A and B, Which are exactly alike and made from the same mold, presumably, and these shells or side parts constitute portions of the spool, so called, and are made of any suitable material, such as paper, waterproof or otherwise, of the requisite strength and consistency, papier-mache, or other material which is durable in service and light in weight and adapted to form a more or less complete side and edge covering for a roll or winding of barbed and other wires or like goods adapted to be wound and unwound, such as certain kinds of cables for electrical purposes. In the said form of the invention the side shells or covers A and B may or may not be accompanied by a wooden or equivalent core, but are shown without such core in this instance, and have central holes a and b, respectively, the material from which is carried inward and forms short hubs a and 6, over which the tubular core would be engaged. As it is said hubs and holes have the bindingwire 0 threaded through them and centrally through the coil or roll O of wire inclosed by said hoods, and said wire binds the parts together and constitutes a complete spool for shipping. If desired, the shells A and B may be given greater depth, so as to deepen the saucer effect and cause them to engage more fully over the periphery of roll or coil, and for barbed wire especially a protecting inclosure of this kind is deemed of great advantage both for handling and shipping the wire. Two or more axial wires E are drawn through the holes a in the caps A and B and firmly tied at their ends and constitute the core of the spool. This enables the outer wires 0 to be removed and the wire O to be unwound from the spool without removing caps A and B.

In practice the wire roll is wound on a suitable mandrel, and after removing the roll from the material I apply my shipping mechanism as above described.

In practice, and particularly with the form of invention shown, the consumer is in the habit of removing the outer binding-Wires 0, but leaving the shells and their central connecting-Wires together and placing the bundle upon a suitable mandrel, rod, or pole, upon which the bundle is adapted to be rotated as the wire is unwound and put upon the fence, and as this occurs the hubs (I become the bearing portions upon which the bundle is rotated, but the connecting-wires E remain in place and hold the caps or shells together practically as if they were rigidly united until the spool is practically exhausted of the wire. In a sense, therefore, the outer wires C are the shipping-wires and the inner wires E are the using wires; but these latter also assist in holding the shells upon the roll and are of value for both purposes.

IVhat I claim is- 1. In means for shipping barbed wire and other rolls, the same comprising aset of substantially dish-shaped shells having central openings and a series of holes about said openings, and wires through said holes connecting said shells, whereby a flexible core is formed and the shells are held together as the roll is unwound, substantially as described.

2. The shells for shipping wire rolls having central openings and hubs inside about said openings and holes through said shells about said openings, in combination with wires threaded through said holes and fastened at their ends on the outside of the shells, substantially as described.

3. The combination ofa set of saucer-shaped shells provided with central holes and inwardly-extendinghubs about said holes, wires axially connecting the said shells through holes at the base of said hubs and binding-wires engaged through the axis of the shells and extending around the outside thereof from one side of said shells to the other, substantially as described. 

